I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

By going to the movies and because of other things too going to college making a wide variety of friends moving around traveling I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

To me movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

I love the movies and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me and I spent a year or a year and a half of my life working on it.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

If you're going through hell keep going.

I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests private interests.

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening and going once a day to beg for food.

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

There's nothing like coming home here having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don't know what I would do.

I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work.

I'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on.